[Hardware]Best Graphics Cards for Gaming in 2024

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The best graphics cards are the beating heart of any gaming PC, and everything else comes second. Without a powerful GPU pushing pixels, even the fastest CPU won't manage much. While no one graphics card will be right for everyone, we'll provide options for every budget and mindset below. Whether you're after the fastest graphics card, the best value, or the best card at a given price, we've got you covered. Where our GPU benchmarks hierarchy ranks all of the cards based purely on performance, our list of the best graphics cards looks at the whole package. Current GPU pricing, performance, features, efficiency, and availability are all important, though the weighting becomes more subjective. Factoring in all of those aspects, these are the best graphics cards that are currently available. MARCH 2024 UPDATE Alongside the increasing RTX 4090 prices, RTX 4080 Super is also selling well above MSRP. We also had the worldwide launch of the AMD RX 7900 GRE last month, which joins our list. The only 'new' GPU to launch in February was the RX 7900 GRE, joining the four GPUs that came out in January: RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, RTX 4070 Super, and RX 7600 XT. All of these are in our performance charts, and some make our overall picks, replacing former entries that are now discontinued. Barring a surprise announcement in the coming months, this should be the end of new models from AMD and Nvidia until the future Blackwell and RDNA 4 GPUs arrive — most likely in 2025. There's also the "made for China" RTX 4090 D, which isn't easy to find in the U.S. and tends to cost just as much as the faster non-D model, so we'll skip that. The 7900 GRE has become a worldwide part, so perhaps the 4090 D will eventually follow suit. We're primarily a U.S. and western-focused site, however, so we'll confine our discussion to cards available in the U.S. market. Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs rate more as previous generation hardware, as they're manufactured on TSMC N6 and compete more directly against the RTX 3060 and RX 6700 10GB instead of newer parts. The Arc A750 periodically falls below $200 (we've seen it sell for as little as $179) and remains a competitive option, if you don't mind the occasional driver snafus and higher power use.

Graphics Card	1080p FPS	1440p FPS	4K FPS	Price (MSRP)	Avg. Power
GeForce RTX 4090	186.8	137.8	86.9	$1,820 ($1,600)	321W
GeForce RTX 4080 Super	167.8	112.5	65.3	$1,200 ($1,000)	247W
GeForce RTX 4080	165.0	110.0	63.5	$1,140 ($1,200)	249W
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super	152.5	97.6	55.1	$800 ($800)	251W
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti	149.4	92.7	50.7	$690 ($800)	237W
GeForce RTX 4070 Super	141.0	86.0	46.6	$590 ($600)	202W
GeForce RTX 4070	126.6	74.3	39.8	$520 ($550)	185W
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB	101.0	56.1	29.1	$420 ($500)	152W
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti	101.0	55.5	27.7	$385 ($400)	142W
GeForce RTX 4060	82.7	44.5	22.1	$294 ($300)	127W
Radeon RX 7900 XTX	149.1	100.5	58.1	$899 ($1,000)	334W
Radeon RX 7900 XT	138.5	89.2	49.3	$700 ($900)	300W
Radeon RX 7900 GRE	124.4	76.7	40.8	$550 ($550)	252W
Radeon RX 7800 XT	115.9	70.2	37.9	$500 ($500)	241W
Radeon RX 7700 XT	103.7	60.4	31.4	$420 ($450)	232W
Radeon RX 7600 XT	75.5	40.3	19.9	$320 ($330)	189W
Radeon RX 7600	71.2	35.9	14.8	$260 ($270)	154W
Intel Arc A770 16GB	71.6	43.5	—	$290 ($330)	210W
Intel Arc A770 8GB	68.6	38.6	—	$344 ($350)	224W
Intel Arc A750	66.4	38.7	—	$220 ($250)	199W
Intel Arc A580	60.6	34.6	—	$170 ($180)	194W
Intel Arc A380	25.0	—	—	$115 ($140)	71W

 

1. NVIDIA RTX 4070 SUPER

Nvidia just refreshed its 40-series lineup with the new Super models. Of the three, the RTX 4070 Super will be the most interesting for the most people. It inherits the same $599 MSRP as the non-Super 4070 (which has dropped to $549 to keep it relevant), with all the latest features of the Nvidia Ada Lovelace architecture. It's slightly better than a linear boost in performance relative to price, which is as good as you can hope for these days. Unlike some of the other models, the RTX 4070 Super also seems to have plenty of base-MSRP models available at retail. We like the stealthy black aesthetic of the Founders Edition, and it runs reasonably cool and quiet, but third-party cards with superior cooling are also available, sometimes at lower prices than the reference card. The 4070 Super bumps core counts by over 20% compared to the vanilla 4070, and in our testing we've found that the general lack of changes to the memory subsystem doesn't impact performance as much as you might expect. It's still 16% faster overall (at 1440p), even with the same VRAM capacity and bandwidth — though helped by the 33% increase in L2 cache size. Compared to the previous generation Ampere GPUs, even with less raw bandwidth, the 4070 Super generally matches or beats the RTX 3080 Ti, and delivers clearly superior performance than the RTX 3080. What's truly impressive is that it can do all that while cutting power use by over 100W.


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